Conventionality
[kən,venʃə'nælɪtɪ] or [kən,vɛnʃən'æləti]
Definition
(noun.) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional.
(noun.) unoriginality as a result of being too conventional.
(noun.) conformity with conventional thought and behavior.
Typed by Dave--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
Edited by Lizzie
Examples
- And every nation has its pope of conventionality. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Slaves to gain, slaves to art, slaves to conventionality, slaves to everything; and what do they gain by such slavery? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Conventionality is not morality. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She had advanced to the secret recesses of sensuousness, yet had hardly crossed the threshold of conventionality. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Those Furies, the conventionalities, being thus appeased, he left her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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